Heard that Grand Master France had a few tugs off tincas and black slabs……….come on Tinca Ted, tell us more
Further down the length, Millie managed to snare and get a couple of carp out, but ended up ‘losing the match’ 4-2 to the beasties.
Meanwhile Cotti on one of his patrols down the cut was called to assist another angler whose rod was taking on an alarming shape………….after a titanic battle, an exhausted angler was relieved that Cotti somehow had managed to net a beast tail first and then shuffled it to just about get the body in the landing net…………’it was a magnificent scale perfect virgin mirror that dwarfed my previous best fish from Baden Hall’ was how Cotti described it as – adding that it was well into the 20lb plus bracket.
By the time I went down the cut, Tinca Ted and Millie had packed up. However also along the common was a guy called Phil who popped round my house a couple of weeks to pick up a club card.
He told me he’d fished the common on Sat for the first time and was dead chuffed to have plenty of silvers and a bonus tinca……..his mate who had popped down to see him was so enthralled too that it has rejuvenated him enough to dig out his old gear, and was going to buy a rod licence this week (and pick up a club card from me).
Anyway I digress, Phil was in total disbelief of the ‘quality’ of the canal as he preceded along with silvers and perch, to catch a total of 14 tench…………he had some difficulty in getting his net out – I’m crap at guessing weights but it must have been somewhere between 40 – 50 lb - for the photo shoot which I did on his camera for him, t – well done Phil, and all from a peg considered non descript and poor by some!
